From: Timo TerÃs <timo.teras@xxxxxx> The channel callbacks are called directly from vmbus_event_dpc which runs in tasklet context. These callbacks need to use GFP_ATOMIC. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16701 Cc: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Timo TerÃs <timo.teras@xxxxxx> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/hv/netvsc.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc.c b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc.c index df9cd13..0edbe74 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc.c +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc.c @@ -1279,7 +1279,7 @@ static void netvsc_channel_cb(void *context) /* ASSERT(device); */ packet = kzalloc(NETVSC_PACKET_SIZE * sizeof(unsigned char), - GFP_KERNEL); + GFP_ATOMIC); if (!packet) return; buffer = packet; -- 1.7.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel